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When I cook, I generally just estimate my butter measurements. One tablespoon equals half a stick, two tablespoons becomes a whole stick. What can I say, I like to keep things simple. The KitchenArt Buttermate adds overrated precision measurements to the butter+me-life=happy equation. Using an admittedly interesting slider system, you can select teaspoons, tablespoons or…
Blu-ray movies and free tacos sounds like a pretty great way to spend a Thursday night for us, but today we also have some deals on the MacBook Air, flash storage and gasoline! Home Entertainment • Westinghouse 47″ 1080p HDTV for $899 plus free shipping (normally $1,499). • Sharp Aquos 46″ 1080p LCD HDTV for…
Cameraphone pictures suck, generally speaking. It’s because the lenses are tiny and garbage. But this Jabil cameraphone module with a physical shutter could change things. The module measures 10 x 10 x 8mm and has a moving blade-style shutter that prevents light from entering the lens until you’ve press the shot button. It also has…
I still have serious doubts about 3D PC gaming actually taking off, but Maingear’s Nvidia-powered Prelude 2 3D gaming rig neatly bundles everything you need into a $2000 package. For two grand, I’d like the specs on the PC itself to be a little beefier—a step above the default GeForce 9800 GT, at least 320GB…
Guitar Hero has been available on other cellphones for a while now, but far be it from Activision to pass up an opportunity to cash in on a big platform like Android. https://gizmodo.com/verizon-gets-guitar-hero-proceeds-to-rock-for-first-ti-336444 The game will be a port of Guitar Hero World Tour Mobile with touchscreen gameplay and 15 tracks (mostly classic rock). An…
The iPhone is great, until, one frosty day, you realize its capacitive touchscreen doesn’t work through gloves. So we tested three pairs of iPhone-friendly gloves to decide which were best. https://gizmodo.com/giz-explains-the-magic-behind-touchscreens-5036516 Freehands Stretch ($21) Gimmick: Finger tip flaps allow your real fingers to do the typing. Finger tip hinges allow actual finger to touch iPhone…
Day four of the Pirate Bay trial was largely procedural, but with such a merry band of swashbuckling geeks involved, it wasn’t without some excitement. And some of it came at Windows users’ expense. When defendant Fredrik Neij was questioned regarding the relationship Oded Daniel, an advertiser, had with the technical aspects of the Pirate…
Microsoft’s “compatibility list” of sites that don’t render correctly in Internet Exploder 8 RC1—requiring some non-standards mojo from the browser to look right—numbers some 2,400. They’re off-the-beaten-path sites like Amazon, Google, Microsoft and YouTube. Mary Jo Foley posted what looks like the entire list of broken sites, but here are some of the more ridiculous…
What you are looking at is a hunk of finger from some poor bastard named Dirk caught between two large neodymium magnets. Good lord that is disgusting. Dirk had an accident. Below is the X-ray showing his totally crushed finger tip. It took 1 1/2 hours of surgery to remove the shattered bones and repair…
It’s the Holy Grail of self-loathing DualShock gamers. Ditch Sony’s controller for Microsoft’s with the XCM’s latest, fully functional Cross Battle Adapter. The adapter plugs into your PS3’s USB port where it accepts wired Xbox 360 controllers. Beyond mere “it works!” functionality along with new rumble support, you can also toggle turbo on any button—which…
These mannequin-inspired lamps, aptly named At Your Command, are the most awkwardly sexy lighting devices since Mr. Parker’s “major award” from The Christmas Story. From designers at Daniel Loves Objects, the At Your Command lamps evoke the intense imagery of a censored orgy filled with a mutant race of man in which skin is made…
Nothing says “I know how to party” like a ping pong table completely covered in mirrors. After all, you can’t do lines off a regular ping pong table, right? The table, titled “Reflection” (Oh, now I get it) is an art piece by Rirkrit Tiravanija, and it’s on display at NYEHaus on Gramercy Park in…
Brilliant soap maker (soapsmith? soapist?) Digitalsoaps sells bars molded as gaming controllers. The blue olive oil NES controllers are sold out, but you can still get one in orange glycerine, or go for PlayStation. Check out the Etsy shop here—they’re all around five bucks. [Digitalsoaps – Etsy via BBG]
The SNES gamepad for Wii was formerly available exclusively through Club Nintendo Japan (a customer loyalty program), but now a third party exporter/retailer has gotten their hands on a few to sell. https://gizmodo.com/snes-controller-for-wii-unboxed-looks-incredibly-authe-380572 This SNES pad for Wii is pretty much just like the Classic Controller, but it’s identical in feel and style to the…
Even if most high dynamic range photos on Flickr make you want to barf, it’s still incredibly useful for creating images that match what the naked eye sees. The Ricoh CX1 does HDR images in-camera. It’s not the first (a few Pentax DSLRs do it, the K20 and K200) but it may very well be…
It’s a quarterly ritual for Sprint at this point: Another 1.3 million subscribers have fled, another $1.6 billion down the tube. You have to wonder if this spiral’s ever gonna stop spinning. [Yahoo] https://gizmodo.com/sprint-loses-another-1-3-million-customers-326-millio-5079583
Sure, Gakken Kagaku No Tamago start off as weird little toy UFO robots that are controlled entirely by banging on stuff. But one day, when they’ve successfully infiltrated every home on the planet, they’ll suddenly stop responding to your frantic thumping. After years of following our orders to put their plan into motion, they’ll pop…
Rechargeable batteries can be a bit of a pain—you have to carry around an adapter, find an outlet, and even bend over to plug in the adapter. It’s hell, really. The SunCat batteries solve all of these issues while giving the environment a firm pat on the butt by wrapping standard NiMH rechargeable batteries (1.8V)…
Nyko’s Wand is the industry’s first Wiimote alternative, and it’s a great one at that (see our impressions here). This April, you’ll be able to pick it up for $35. Or there are two bundles: https://gizmodo.com/the-nyko-wand-may-be-just-as-good-as-the-wiimote-or-ev-5128055 Wand Action Pak Get the Wand along with the Pistol Grip for $50 this June. The Pistol Grip uses…
Since the E3 announcement of Wii MotionPlus and WiiSports Resort, Nintendo has been silent as to the new control platform’s development. But according to EA, things are moving ahead as planned. https://gizmodo.com/wii-motionplus-hands-on-verdict-melancholy-bliss-5025659 EA has announced the first wave of third party games that will support Wii MotionPlus controls: Tiger Woods 10 and a new tennis…